Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-23
RAILWAY Y4MPR0yEMENTS
The Work I'm the CITY ana tine
suburbs.

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The work I'm the city and the
suburbs.
In view OF the speedy building OF the
the kubrts street aud North Main
street bridge over the Los Angeles river,
the managers OF the system OF s'reet
railways have laid track from the river
eastward up Kuhrts street to the City
Park. and have the ties aud rails ready
to Law a track from Alameda street 10
the river as soou rs the grade shall be
established for that street. Why that
urade is not established is one OF the
mysteries of the age. 1t is said that all
legal objections have been removed ia
regard to opening the street, and the
people along ihe line want to know who
Ia responsible for the delay in opening
this street, one of the most important in
the city.
The piles for the bridge are on the
ground and the stakes for their perma.
nent residence are driven, and the pile
driver and engine are in position ready
for work. The location of the bridge 's
very popular, as il connects Main street
with the center OF East Los Angeles aud
will form the only thoroughfare through
the center of the city. BY the time the
bridge is done the grading of the street
and the laying OF the track OF the street
railway should be done from the river to
Alameda. The people are in dead ear
nest In ohis matter and want to know
who delays this great work
The work of extending the line of the
California Central through the city is
proceeding rapidly. At least 200 men
are at work seven days in a week in the
construction of tracks, levees, depots
and highways along the west side OF the
Los Angeles river from First street to
the city limits on the south.
Grading for the large and beautiful
passenger depot, heretofore described in
Tue HERALD, is going forward on the
south side Of First street, and will soon
be completed, Between First and
Also streets a branch track leaves
the main through line on the west
aide and passes across First street.
where il is divided into three
other lines which lead to the great
freight depot, which is to be about 1000
feet long and front ON Second street on
the south and @ new and pameless street
ON the west. This great structure has
its floor laid and the superstructure is
partly up and being enclosed. 1t is to
be opened for the receipt and delivery
OF freight on Wednesday, June lst
CHANGE OF FREIGHT DEPors.
On and after June lst the freight for
all local points between Las Angeles and
San Bernardino, and at that place also,
will be delivered at the new depot on
Second street, and the present Downey
avenue freight depot discontinued, A
local ticket office will remain at Downey
avenue bridge
The great Bigelow vineyard is being
torn up by hundred Cinnamon, no
other help being available, to make
room for side tracks and repair and
machine shops and coal bunkers. The
main track has skipped the city into the
arnbrosiat shades Of Vernon and will
call halt at Fruitland, where Mr..
Lewis of the Ballona line will meet it
aud new line will pass 70 the East
through Fruitland and the San Antonio
Rancho. Downey City and Fulton
Wells to East Center street, at Ana
helm. The grading is light and easy
and is all under contract. The summer
season will see the completion of all
these lines. The track is laid with the
seventy-pound Joliet steel rails, angle
iointed. The work is immense aud but
few people have any idea OF the magni-
tude of the operations now going on.
Only those who visit the work person.
alIy or see the payroll can realize the
imuensity of the work being done.
A building is being erected for tele.
graph and ticket office. TO be used until
tue great depot shall be erected.
This change of shipments OF local
matter will be q great relief to San Fer
nando street, which is now thronged
with teams for both railroads.
It is expected that work will soon be.
GIN on the railway from Shorb's switch
to the Raymond, so that when the Ray
mond reopens in the autumn the excur.
siouists of Raymond 4 Whitcomb can
pass direct to the hotel without coming
TO Los Angeles and without change OF
cars. The right OF way is already as.
sured for this important connection,
and skilled men are ready for the work
of construction. The work of railroad
building in Pasadena "a very lively on
the Yocum &. Mundell line, ON the
Woodbury. line and the Lake avenue
line.
The line from San Fernando TO Ven
tura through the Porter ranchos, the
Van Nuys and Lankershim rancho, and
the Simi and Las Posas ranchos has
been made and pronounced feasible. By
this line there would be no bridging OF
the Los Angeles river or the Tujunga or
Pacoims streams, for that has been
already done, and the Southern Pacific
Company has turn.'able and all other
junction facilities at that place for ope-
rasing this important branch, that would
pass through l75, 900 acres of land that
would be open for settlement to small
fruit farmers. This new road will be a
very important factor in the business OF